The Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 2001. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-banister-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 2001
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Garden Cottage, North Street, Milborne Port, DT9 5FB
- OS grid reference
- ST 678 187
- Coordinates
- 50.96695, -2.45968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 19th century, constructed of stone rubble with a slate roof featuring gabled ends. The southwest gable end has a raised coped parapet, and there are gable-end stacks with brick shafts. The building has a rectangular two-room plan with a central entrance.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical northeast front with three windows. These windows are two-light designs with wrought-iron casements and leaded panes. The central doorway features a plank door with a later top light and a canopy. The rear southeast side has later window openings and a glazed door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Garden Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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